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Festival Livestream Uses Your Performance Forever - Traps & Scams Every Musician Must Avoid
Traps & Scams Every Musician Must Avoid

Festival Livestream Uses Your Performance Forever - Traps & Scams Every Musician Must Avoid

Posted by author-avatar Toni Mercia
November 6, 2025
Yes this actually happens. You play a sweaty, awesome set. You sign a form on the way in because you are running late. Weeks later your...
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How to Write Lyrics About Explanation
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How to Write Lyrics About Explanation

Posted by author-avatar Toni Mercia
November 2, 2025
You want to explain something in a song without sounding like a lecture from your aunt at Thanksgiving. Maybe you need to apologize. Ma...
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How to Write Jazz-Funk Songs
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How to Write Jazz-Funk Songs

Posted by author-avatar Toni Mercia
November 1, 2025
You want a song that makes people move and then makes them think. You want a groove that sits in the chest and a harmony that flirts wi...
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Deathrock Songwriting Advice
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Deathrock Songwriting Advice

Posted by author-avatar Toni Mercia
November 2, 2025
This guide is for anyone who loves spooky guitars, dramatic vocals, and lyrics that read like a noir poem written under red club lights...
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How to Write Hiplife Lyrics
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How to Write Hiplife Lyrics

Posted by author-avatar Toni Mercia
November 1, 2025
Hiplife hits when Ghanaian swagger meets songwriting sense. You want verses that make taxi drivers nod, chorus lines that people hum af...
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Josh Zieman, President - US Operations at Dramatico Ent Contact Details
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Josh Zieman, President - US Operations at Dramatico Ent Contact Details

Posted by author-avatar Toni Mercia
July 21, 2025
As a musician, getting in touch with industry professionals like Josh Zieman, President of US Operations at Dramatico Ent, can be a gam...
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Jim Balbirer, Senior Vice President, New Business Development at VH1 Contact Details
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Jim Balbirer, Senior Vice President, New Business Development at VH1 Contact Details

Posted by author-avatar Toni Mercia
July 31, 2024
Jim Balbirer is a renowned figure in the music industry, currently serving as the Senior Vice President of New Business Development at ...
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Free Jazz Songwriting Advice
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Free Jazz Songwriting Advice

Posted by author-avatar Toni Mercia
November 2, 2025
You want to write jazz songs that sound like they belong in a smoky club and on a playlist without sounding like you copied someone els...
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Ikwokirikwo Songwriting Advice
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Ikwokirikwo Songwriting Advice

Posted by author-avatar Toni Mercia
November 2, 2025
If you want people to lose their shoes and forget their ex during your chorus, you are in the right place. Ikwokirikwo is lightning in ...
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How to Write Lyrics About Opera
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How to Write Lyrics About Opera

Posted by author-avatar Toni Mercia
November 2, 2025
Opera is dramatic, over the top, and deliciously theatrical. It also seems intimidating to anyone who did not grow up at the Met or in ...
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